The Indian population consists of Paiute, Shoshoni and the remnants of a few other tribes of Shoshonean stock.
The only workers in clay west of the Rockies and north of the Pueblo country belonged to the Shoshonean family of the Interior Basin.
The South Ute Indian Reservation in the south of the state is the home of the Moache, Capote and Wiminuche Utes, of Shoshonean stock.
As a rule 1 The name is that of a Shoshonean .Indian tribe, more commonly called Ute.